The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
I’m going to revisit APBA Hockey, since I seem to be enjoying the APBA Soccer Game so much.
I think I have the 1995-96 season, for some reason.
Jeff Friesen’s first full year with the Sharks?
Anyways, if I can get through a game of that without complaints, I may get an updated copy of that game.
Stay tuned!
“Captain’s log, Star date 1312.4. The impossible has happened.”
I’ve found a game that, to me, replicates what I see on TV in a soccer match as much as most tabletop baseball games do for me.
I do still like playing Dice United and Soccer Blast, it’s just that to me APBA Soccer simulates the build up that usually results in a goal more accurately than the other two do.
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The other games do one thing better, and that’s give you the amount of stoppage time to add at the end of a half.
With APBA, they have maybe a couple of instances listed on the ‘special play’ chart for injury, but that may not even come into play.
Checking the APBA Delphi Forums, there’s no definite answer either, though there are some suggestions that I may consider adapting.
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The fact that I can play a game of this level in a little under 2 hours, even with distractions, is surprising to me.
It takes almost twice as long with or without distractions to play a non-quick play game of American football or basketball or hockey, though like most PLAAY games I can get a game of Hockey Blast finished in maybe an hour.
Golf is it’s own thing and can take as long as it needs to on any given course.
Same with racing, depending on the type of track I’m running on.
Perhaps I should revisit some of the APBA and Strat-O-Matic football and hockey games to see if the time to play has changed for me.
1-2 hours for a sports game seems to be the sweet spot for me nowadays. It allows me to set up in the morning or when I get home from work, and play before I go to bed, with time to compile a post game report that I can post here.
When I first bought Hockey Blast in 2014, I also purchased the fictional World Hockey League 2013-14 set. I created 12 teams but never got around to organizing a schedule for them.
Until now.
It begins!
The one thing I discovered when playing out this first game is that overtime didn’t exist until the 1983-84 season. Prior to that, tied games after 3 periods ended in a tie.
Like this one.
Final from Civic Arena:
I’m keeping things simple, stat wise, with just the score and who scored the goals.
Next up: the Chicago Black Hawks.
Stay tuned!
As if I didn’t have enough sports replays on my plate, I decided to expand the 1966-67 Toronto Maple Leafs replay into a full NHL season replay, which is about 210 games long.
My reacquaintance with PLAAY’s Hockey Blast has me wanting to play more hockey, but we’ll see if I can fit it in to my non-existent play schedule.
Perhaps I need to create one of those die-roll decider tables again.
I managed to play game one of the 1966-67 NHL season, but I may replay the game because I wasn’t happy with the way I was chronicling the game itself.
So though Detroit beat Boston 4-1 in that first game, I’m wiping the slate clean and will start the season over.
Stay tuned!
I picked up Yet Another Game, Stone Cold Hockey from Stone Mountain Press.
The game engine is very much like Dice United, their soccer game, so it was fairly easy to learn and play a game.
I used a couple of the fictional teams that come with the core game.
The Indianapolis Lugnuts beat the Dayton Bombers 3-1.
I bought the 1964-65 season along with the game, so I’ll probably play a game with teams from the original 6 soon.
Stay tuned!
